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jarrod on 20 August 2010
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Carl2291 said:
Demotruk said:

PS3 isn't close to Wii so much as Wii has fallen down to PS3 level sales. PS3 is doing quite poorly too, remember that we're into August now and PS3 Slim was very widely known this time last year, and sales were very poor (93K, PS2 was nipping at it's heels). Being up 60% against last year's August sales is nothing to be happy about.

Wii is getting a slew of software in the short term, if they are big hits Wii will recover for a while. Any risk of Wii falling into third place again however will depend as ever on software, but tbh there's no reason to believe we won't have yet another drought after the holiday period this year.

So in other words... The PS3... IS now close to the Wii. Because the PS3 has raised in sales and the Wii has drastically dropped. I sense huge spin on your part... There are less than 10,000 units separating them this week. Compared to last year, when there was over 100,000 units separating them... The PS3 has rose by 54k, and the Wii has dropped by 65k.

And trying to say the PS3 is doing poorly despite being UP 54k on last year this week alone is just... Probably the stupidest thing I've read all year on this website. It's up over 1.6 Million for the year. And you're seriously trying to say it's doing poorly?

In fairness, half the Wii drop YOY is attributable to Japan, where it was still riding high of MH3 and the black Wii introduction a couple weeks earlier.  Even still, YOY Wii's up in Japan ytd though.